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While I absolutely don't see the great benefit of having GPGPU support in a "spreadsheet" application,
this raises my hopes to see more OpenCL-backends in other applications in the near future (developed by AMD, intel, etc.).

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Personally I would just be happy if amd bumps up its opengl performance and makes its closed source linux drivers on par with windows as I am not that much of an open source fetishist to need it open source.

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Personally I would just be happy if amd bumps up its opengl performance and makes its closed source linux drivers on par with windows as I am not that much of an open source fetishist to need it open source.

I mean maybe from a developer persepective I could understand how somebody could want that, but from a user perspective that makes no sense... as user if you feel that way, just buy a nvidia card and let the amd guys there freedom.

some users dont want nsa-backdoor-updates from nvidia...

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Personally I would just be happy if amd bumps up its opengl performance and makes its closed source linux drivers on par with windows as I am not that much of an open source fetishist to need it open source.

When KWin and GDM3 support across their respective DE's OpenGL 3.x then you'll see more improvements across all applications spaces, including games on Linux. It's going to happen, sooner, rather than later.

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Its easy to say to change to nvidia, but performance in OpenCL its even worse in open source drivers unless you use closed source, but yet Nvidia GTX 600/700 are slow as F*** in OpenCL

Everyday in this forum comes news of improvements from AMD, they are really trying hard and that is something we don't see everyday especially from them.
Libreoffice is slow too when you start to mess with Graphics and things like that, sure its not a trully good improment, but it is something that will be supported.
They trully seem to much keen to give support to open-source things.
By the logic why they just didn't give support to m$ office, and came to support libreoffice which have so much less users?

I'm betting that amd support will tend to get better results, because at least me i already notice they are trying hard to implement things that they should have been done years ago, now they just want to make it all for linux in world record time attack.